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BBC News - Military sued over al-Awlaki Yemen drone death

Relatives of three Americans killed in drone strikes in Yemen are suing top Pentagon and CIA officials, saying the killings were unconstitutional.

Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan died in September. Awlaki's son Abdulrahman, 16, died in October.

Relatives accuse Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, CIA Director David Petraeus and two military commanders of approving and directing the strikes.

This will be interesting.

US drones kill civilians on a regular basis but the legality of summery execution without trial has never been tested in court.
This child, a US born citizen, was killed by such a strike even though he was never accused of anything.

(I'm not even thinking about arguing that his daddy wasn't a bastard so don't bother with that one)
 
for years the federal government put out wanted poster on crimminals stating dead or alive. Many of those people were never convicted, yet were killed in apprehension.
It will be interesting to see what jurisprudence takes place.
 
To Hunt Awlaki, CIA Found Him a Bride...
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Report: CIA Arranged Bride for Terrorist in Plot to Kill Him
Oct 15, 2012 - Terrorist's aides foiled plot: report
The CIA paid an al Qaeda spy $250,000 to help find a bride for American-born terrorist Anwar al Awlaki in a plot to locate and kill him, according to a report in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The CIA declined to comment when asked about the published account. But if true, it provides a revealing look at the lengths to which the CIA went to find and eliminate al Awlaki, who was among the most wanted terrorists in the world after the death of Osama bin Laden. Al Awlaki was linked by US authorities to a number of terror plots, including the failed effort by the underwear bomber to blow up a US jetliner over Detroit and the attack at Fort Hood in which 13 people died and dozens were injured.

In the case of the terrorist bride, the purported CIA double agent, Morten Storm, a Danish convert to Islam, provided the newspaper with "proposal" videos and e-mail texts he says al Awlaki exchanged with the woman, a 32-year old Croatian named Aminah who said she was an admirer of al Awlaki. "I am 32 years old and am ready for dangerous things," she wrote, according to texts posted by the paper. "I am ready to die for the sake of Allah." The report says the plot failed when the woman reached Yemen but was told by al Awlaki's aides to abandon her suitcase which had been bugged with tracking devices by the CIA without her knowledge. Storm told the newspaper, "both of them would be killed in an American drone strike" if the CIA plan had succeeded.

Al Awlaki was killed in a CIA drone strike in September, 2011. The CIA also declined to comment last week when the claims by the purported Danish spy first surfaced in the Danish newspaper. The account of his alleged role with the CIA and recruitment by Danish intelligence touched off a public firestorm in Denmark over the involvement of the Danish service in the attack that killed al Awlaki. Danish authorities denied any involvement in the attack and said its efforts were aimed only at protecting Denmark from possible al Qaeda attacks. In this latest report, Storm says he was asked by al Awlaki in 2009 to help him find a European Muslim to be his third wife.

In 2010, he said, he found Aminah through a Facebook page that had been set up for sympathizers of al Awlaki and proceeded to play the role of matchmaker with the CIA's money and resources. In her "proposal" video posted on-line by Jyllands-Posten, Aminah, a resident of Zagreb, says, "I feel nervous, this is very awkward for me. I just taped this so you can see how I look." In his tape, al Awlaki says he is sending a video message "specifically for sister Aminah." In an apparent reference to Storm, the alleged CIA spy, al Awlaki says, "The brother who is carrying this video is a trustworthy brother."

Storm says al Awlaki wrote his prospective Facebook bride to accept her proposal for marriage, "If you can live in difficult conditions, don't mind loneliness, and can live with restrictions on your communications with others, that is great." Storm also provided the newspaper with a still photograph of a suitcase packed with $100 U.S. bills that he says was his quarter-million dollar payment from the CIA. Storm says even though the CIA plot failed, the marriage was a success. Following al Awlaki's killing last year, Storm says the young woman wrote him to say she wanted to go on a suicide mission to avenge her husband's death but that al Qaeda leaders had decided against it. The report says she now works with the al Qaeda on-line magazine "Inspire," which frequently featured the musings of her late husband, al Awlaki.

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"If you can live in difficult conditions, don't mind loneliness, and can live with restrictions on your communications with others, that is great."

The universal definition of marriage.
 
MI6 Refused To Kill Al Awlaki...
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MI6 alleged to have refused to kill al-Awlaki, Al Qaeda leader
December 4, 2012 - Morten Storm, a former biker who was hired by MIA to infiltrate Al Qaeda, converted to Islam and dabbled with radical Islamists before turning into a spy for Western governments.
A Danish informant said that the British spy agency MI6 allegedly refused to kill Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki because it was against the law. Morten Storm, a former biker who was hired by MI6 to infiltrate Al Qaeda, converted to Islam and dabbled with radical Islamism before turning into a spy for Western governments. Storm, 36, says that after telling MI6 of al-Awlaki's whereabouts they refused to kill him, stating that they were an intelligence agency that does not involve itself with killings abroad, said the Daily Mail. UPI reported that Storm was told that al-Awlaki did not threaten British lives and therefore Britain could not kill him.

The US and Europe believed that al-Awlaki was a major player in Al Qaeda, inspiring the so-called "underwear bomber" and the 7/7 bus attacks in London. An American citizen, he was killed in a CIA drone strike in September 2011. Storm was said to be key in tracking down al-Awlaki by introducing the Al Qaeda leader to his future wife. The Danish national has fallen out of favor with the spy agencies for revealing the plot, said CNN. The CIA has maintained that it was not the intelligence given to them by Storm that led to al-Awlaki's killing but instead information from a "parallel operation."

But Storm says he is angry that he was not credited for the killing, and that he came forward because he feared a CIA reprisal after the events. Storm has a checkered background that includes numerous criminal charges and drug use. He is said to have converted to Islam in prison to escape a life of crime, reported the Telegraph. He had his change of heart in 2006 and became a double agent for the Danish secret service, PET.

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You people are a real piece of work. You castigate Obama for not doing enough to fight terrorism, fault him when he tries, and the condemn him when he actually does something.

Why not just start a thread entitled, "Obama can't do anything to please the right," and just post your endless "evidence," rather than clutter up the boards with multiple threads on the same thing?
 

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